Maher: GOP playing 'drinking game'

Bill Maher hit Republicans for voting this week on a bill to cut food stamps and a continuing resolution that would defund Obamacare, calling it “a drinking game at this point.”

“These people. I try to be even handed. It’s very hard. This is the … 41st time that they have voted to repeal or defund Obamacare. This is not really governing. This is more like a drinking game at this point. Every time they vote to defund, Boehner knocks back a Wild Turkey. That’s it. That’s what they’re up to,” Maher said on his HBO program, “Real Time with Bill Maher” broadcast Friday.

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Maher jokes that unlike Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Pope Francis, who have been making headlines for changes in tone and rhetoric, Republicans “did not get the memo.”

“One group that apparently did not get the memo to smile upon your brother, everybody get together, and put a little love in your heart, reach out in the darkness, was of course the congressional Republicans who [Thursday] voted to defund food stamps and [Friday] voted to defund and repeal Obamacare. Oh well, actually what they did was they passed a bill that funds the government, if Obama repeals Obamacare. And shows them his birth certificate. And punches himself in the face. And touches a dead squirrel,” Maher joked.

“And gutting food stamps? Oh, brave. So brave. Finally, someone willing to stand up to big hunger. Under the bill they voted for, states now have to require food stamp recipients to be drug tested and work at least 20 hours a week. Same thing I was going to suggest for congressional Republicans, which is weird,” he said.